LET'S SUMMARIZE - CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT (The Wheel of Time Book 10)

My summary of book 10 of the Wheel of Time series, Crossroads of Twilight.
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[@toddfreeman2005]

Actually, mat and tuon in the circus was my favorite part of this book. Way better than the earlier circus storyline.

[@josies1604]

I just finished this book and I don't recall Tam appearing at all, and I don't think Perrin talks to the Seanchan until book 11. Am I mistaken?

[@errtu123]

you are correct

[@coltseavers6298]

Yea. Daniel's book comments on Perrin are surprisingly frequently erroneous. It makes me wonder just how many times that he has read the series, or, does he just skip many of Perrin's parts during his re-reads like some re-readers do. I wish that he would do a fresh re-read before posting a summery of these books, or their characters. It kinda reminds me of the many errors that Sanderson made with Perrin's story line also when he started writing his parts.

[@grnberet9401]

@@coltseavers6298 I think he may be going off memory from his last read-through, although I don't know when that was.

[@richieg85]

colt seavers I know right! But I find Perrin’s story far more interesting than Egwene’s

[@rumpelRAINS]

Yeah Daniel keeps spoiling things for me in his videos.

[@karrawhite6005]

Ugh! This book was a task to get through! Thank you for explaining.

[@sullyb23511]

It wasn't that bad...OK, maybe it was. I really liked Perrin and Mat's sections. Egwene and Elayne's, not so much. Elayne's more. That being said, the book as a whole seems to be very important from a point of exposition.

[@JJ-nu8qi]

I agree.

[@ryanratchford2530]

@@sullyb23511 huh I’m the opposite. Really didn’t care about Perrin or Mat in this book (or the last 4 or so books really) But this book I actually enjoyed Elayne and found Egwene swinging between average to good.

[@michaelshort2388]

Holy insanely long prologue batman. lol

[@madisongoodyear5040]

Michael Short lol yes! I listened to it on audible, and it was 3 hours and 16 minutes long 😑

[@KingBowserVlog]

The prologue is the length of a Lord of the Rings movie

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

oh, and weevils. this book made me google "can I eat weevils", apparently, yeah, weevils are safe to eat.

[@ChristmasLore]

Safe, yes. Appetizing? Hell no.

[@codyberkefeld3693]

SPOILERS!!! Daniel, your reviews are amazing and I love finishing each book just to see your opinion of the wheel of time series. My one complaint is that can you please skim through the book you are reviewing that you have read previously, because a few of your wot reviews actually have spoilers of future books. For example, you explain in this review that Perrin had agreed to work with the Seanchan. I have just finished Crossroads of Twilight and in this book they just mentioned the potential for an alliance and that's kinda where it ends. Worse, Tam does not appear in this book, which I was kind annoyed about. He's in my top 5 characters and I found out he is returning in a review of a book he doesn't appear. Grant it is possible I just missed that part, but if not then this kinda ruined a big spoiler. Worse part is this kind of thing had happen in past reviews. Not major spoilers, but mild ones that can be annoying. It just seems like your a book off on some plot points. Which is understandable, its a long series to remember what happens where. In fact, my father who has finished the series has to really hold back to no give me spoilers, yet they still occasionally leak. But in the end I enjoy your reviews Daniel and I will keep being a loyal fan (PS I hope the last battle goes well, Logain better live he's my boy). I'll comment back when I finish the last book :)

[@josies1604]

Those were my same complaints. Once he mentioned Tam I turned the video off, realizing he must have gotten confused with a future book. I'm just now revisiting now that I have completed a few books ahead.

[@caroliendecq7422]

I just started reading the books and every time I finish one, I like to watch Daniels summary to make sure I didn’t miss anything important (because I often doze off when I read before going to bed). As soon as he was talking about a deal with the Seanchan I thought, wait a minute, I don’t know about this yet! So thanks for confirming there are spoilers in this video! (From reading some of the comments, I now know Tam will reappear again too, but I don’t know how or when so it’s not that big of a spoiler for me fortunately :) When I finish the next book, I’ll check the comments first to see if it’s really spoiler free before watching Daniels summary!

[@da3m0nic_79]

Yeah, it doesn’t feel like enough time was taken to make sure he only talks about the book in the video, without accidentally talking about a future book. This is why I now only watch these videos when I’m like 2 books ahead in my read through.

[@JamesI88]

Looking forward to knife of dreams, Jordans return to form in my opinion.

[@DanielGreeneReviews]

James I totally agree! Great book.

[@Gunleaver]

Don't look forward to too much, Daniel more or less describes a lot of stuff from that book in this one.

[@graceannpierce4302]

so good to know others are loving this series as much as I have. TY Daniel !

[@mkmike9515]

Thank you so much for not dropping this series half way. You are an amazing person!!

[@notakindcanadian4516]

I love this series but this book was the first time that I genuinely wished I had skipped some chapters, their not bad, not by any means but the entire time I wasn't really that interested other then the scenes with Rand, Elayne and Egwene, but I've heard a lot of good about the next book so can't wait to be done this one

[@Sara866873]

Huge thanks for these summaries! I took a break after this book and now I'm super excited to get to "the good books" again :D

[@kght222]

4:20 the way he tortured that aiel is a foreshadowing of his understanding of the aiel much later in the series. he understands that the aiel must feel useful, or they are destroyed. that was how he broke that man. i think he made up for it by seeing that and helping rand make a place for them in the dragon's peace.

[@kght222]

(well, much later as in 3 books later at merrilor)

[@kght222]

they are a tool that rusts and breaks if it isn't used.

[@Junya01]

Can you add a spoiler tag when you talk about what happens in this book and then spoil what happens in the end of the series in the same sentence? Thanks dude :”)

[@saintdonoghue]

This is SUCH a great series! A perfect balance of exposition and personal take -

[@ReadandFindOut]

I loved the "repurposing" of the Red Ajah.

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

"For some who swear an oath, whatever is not forbidden is permitted, and whatever is not commanded can be ignored. Others take actions they believe will help their liege without first asking permission" I love that quote in this book. Though, almost nothing actually happens until the last chapter.

[@BamFashion]

Really great review. Thanks for refreshing my memory before I drive back into the series after a 2 year break!

[@blinders6729]

Can you do a video on the WoT relationships. I always found this interesting and I would love a nice "runback" of the major relationships. When you talked about the courtship between Matt and Tuon it got me thinking that would be a cool idea.

[@joripien]

Daniel, I love your content, but I just wanted to watch this video to get a recap of book 10 since I read New Spring in between and I think you actually spoiled a bunch of stuff for book 11 :(

[@TheOther19]

Another one so soon. You've made this weekend, and week, the best so far! Liking and sharing

[@fab006]

I find it interesting how many people complain about this book being slow. On my read, I had a much harder time with the last couple, which seemed to be a lot of meandering. Even the big event at the end of Winter’s Heart fell a bit flat, after all the aimlessness. I guess I don’t mind “all setup”, if it seems to lead somewhere!

[@michaelhowze8198]

I agree the inky book I found slow was Winter's Heart the rest moved decently well for me

[@vincentbusch6608]

Daniel, I absolutely love your reviews!

[@carolbriscoe9337]

I'm just finishing this book. It has been the most difficult book to read. I know it was to fill in everyone's reactions to the release of power at Shahghar Logoth. What they were doing and their reactions. But what a slog.

[@danielgaetzke492]

Slowest book in the series. But good review

[@michaelhowze8198]

Disagree Winters h Heart was slower this was slow though.

[@Eloweh]

Anyone else totally miss what Egewene’s mission at the docks actually was 💀

[@runningcommentary2125]

Yep. Didn't have a clue.

[@adensvedahl7381]

Daneil i love your videos but i am currently reading through Crossroads of Twilight and when Mesana is going to torture Alvaihrin and Shadar haran shows up isnt in book 10. Then when it cuts to the sisters in the tower, they are talking about the heads of Ajahs being very shadly placed, and it isnt until later in the book that the REBEL Aes Seadi talk about the black tower as a way of gaining power to fight the forsaken, this idea arises when Rand and Nynaeve are using Saidar and Saidin to cleanse the taint on Saidin and channelers all over the world can feel it. The rebels think it is the forsaken so when it dissaptes they send sisters over to look at it. They rebels then figure out that to make more power they need to let male channeler in there circles to make one lager than 13. I wanted a recap of the book before i finish and was very confused.

[@Mumpguy]

Yes it is, chapter 21- a mark.

[@forceofchaos1]

Ye i felt lile it wasnt a very good recap. Daniel did t really get into anything of the plots of the book

[@swimerik]

Warning for those who are watching this who just finished book 10. This does contain spoilers! I had to stop watching the review for book 9 also as it contains book 10 spoilers

[@swimerik]

@Anne Day Spoilers for later material. As I mentioned I had to stop watching book 9 recap as it had book 10 spoilers, just as this one has spoilers for later material in book 11

[@hikaru99]

With reference to Tuon I thought it was because she learned he blew the horn of valere and saw Artur Hawkwing in Falme

[@Ailthas]

Publisher: based on your outline you have 20k words of story. Rj: hold my beer.

[@TimTinhTran]

Thanks for this. What chapter does Tam reappear? I dont remember that part.

[@DaveOpoien]

He didn't in this book.

[@forceofchaos1]

Daniel spoiled it. It happens in the 11th book

[@auston781]

Good job bud kept up the good work

[@Blarg6306]

Yay, more WoT! Loving this summary series, will you be summarizing any other series afterwards? Also, if you enjoyed the Lightbringer series, try The Night Angel trilogy, same author

[@jeanfish7]

It's strange...I actually enjoyed Crossroads the 5th time around...maybe because I actually understand that this is an important ending of one emotional storyline. ( Perrin, the closest to " human") and the bridge to later storylines.

[@SteveGraves10]

SPOILER alert!!! Daniel reveals chunks of Book 11 in this review of Book 10

[@mre677]

I didnt care for this book first read. Like many other comments its considered a slog. On my rereads I felt the opposite. Nothing really happens, its just detail on details and your cant get enough of it. I Now consider it one of my favorites.

[@forceofchaos1]

You're actually spoiling parts of the 11th book...

[@andrewgiddings6071]

Thank you for letting me know so I could quickly click pause!

[@danribeiro4728]

I don't think he's spoiling anything, looks to me that all the information on the video were on book 10.

[@Problemsolver434]

This entire series is a soiler. I don't understand why anyone will watch this series to this point and not expect to be spoiled. A spoiler complaint feels out of place in a series like this

[@ericks141]

Man book 10 what a drag... Hope it gets better I was so interested in book one now ☹️

[@danielhammeke7289]

It dose there is a drag in the 8 though 10 books but after that it gets better

[@FMRovers]

@10:05 the other way around ;)

[@jeffhutchins6874]

Dude, light anomaly flies into your left shoulder at 10:19! Its a ghost!! Lol

[@errtu123]

this entry into WoT has got to be the most disappointing. Whole bunch of setup, almost no pay off. Plot barely moves forward, Rand is nonexistent, almost nothing happens in the whole book, characters doing senseless things all over the place. What happened to this great series...

[@Zeighla]

I haven't watched this video because I'm still reading the book and I don't want to be spoiled. But I have a question that doesn't specifically relate to this book and I don't know if it'll get answered down the road. I highly doubt it since she's a pretty minor character. But does it state anywhere why/how Delana became black ajah? Because from her thoughts/actions (besides following Halima's orders) I don't see any black ajah traits others usually display. She seems nice enough and seemed to genuinely care about people...well...Siuane.

[@sanin3213]

She's probably just pretending to be nice idk. Also, when was it stated that she's black ajah? I can't remember that part at all haha (I just finished book 10 in case that matters)

[@Zeighla]

@@sanin3213 Sorry if I spoiled it for you. But she doesn't play a major role as far as I know, so not a big deal. Tbh, I forget the details of the book pretty quickly. That's why I know when I reread it (eventually), it'll almost be like reading a new book. But about pretending....we get to know her thoughts when the story is told from her point of view. There's no need for her to pretend when she's thinking.

[@sanin3213]

@@ZeighlaI'm fine with it being spoiled for me, the book was so boring that I don't even care at this point. And you're right about Delana, it is weird for her to be in black ajah lol

[@Zeighla]

@@sanin3213 Speaking about boring, I got a little tired of Perrin. He's is actually a character I like, but every other thought or word out of his mind was Faile. I understand he loves her and wants to save her but it was exhausting following along with him. In fact, the main reason why I wanted Faile to be saved was just so Perrin could shut up about it.

[@sanin3213]

@@Zeighla Yeah, I get what you're saying but I personally don't mind it, she's his wife after all and she's in grave danger. For me Perrin's story was actually the highlight of the book, especially the scene when he tortures that shaido guy, and I really like the characters that accompany Perrin, especially Aram. What was *really* boring for me was the whole Elayne political drama thing. I was groaning internally as I was reading through her chapters haha

[@justaskvlad3849]

Look at you working hard

[@AnEnemySpy456]

As uneventful as this book was, it was still less of a drag to get through than Lord of Chaos. I still think this whole book could have been cut and nothing of value would have been lost.

[@richieg85]

I am currently doing everything within my power not to throw this in the bin! (Figuratively as it’s audio book) so far NOTHING has happened

[@hannahbrennan2131]

I just finished this one. It wasn't as much of a chore to get through as I'd heard, but it was still a bit tedious at times. I did find some stuff like Mat and Tuon's developing relationship and what's going on with the White Tower and the rebel Aei Sedai interesting.

[@nebojsalukic866]

Did you just put a diablo 3 pic as a video cover

[@forceofchaos1]

I enjoyed all the books leading to the heart of winter, but this one was flat out boring. Took me a whole month to read it whislt the others would take me half the time

[@brettlafleur27]

Just finished this slow book, I hope theirs less skirt smoothing in the next books to come

[@FMRovers]

use audiobook and set it on ~1.5x speed. and skipp the boring stuff . took me one day to finish it.

[@brettlafleur27]

FMR I had I go even faster and it still was hard to get through lol

[@DaveOpoien]

*tugs braid*

[@jeffhutchins6874]

Your new house is haunted!🤪

[@gary6754]

last book i read... about 15 yrs ago i thought this book was horrible,

[@svenschukat2958]

This book was super slow and so many boring plots. Hope it will get better in the last books

[@Gunleaver]

- The book picks up with Rodel Ituralde meeting with Dragonsworn to plan his campaign against the Seanchan. Then we have the Whitecloaks, Logain’s adventures with his bonded Aes Sedai, the Black Ajah hunters inside the Tower and THEN we get to Gawyn. Who is to smart decision-making what Daniel Greene is to making accurate accounts of the events of WoT books. For all that Gawyn’s loyalties change when he is told about Elayne’s, he goes on to attack the army he knows Elayne supports in this book and the next one, up until he changes teams in Book 12. That’s a looong time to act on loyalties that were shattered in the prologue to Book 10. - We HAVE seen Shadar Haran before. He showed up in Book 6. Long before this book, people figured out he was the Dark One’s avatar, and we saw him do the channeling trick in other incidents as well. - The Red Ajah meeting happens in the NEXT book, not Crossroads. They have no clue that the Taint is gone, and part of the motivation for bonding Asha’man is as a way to keep track of them when they do go insane. What happens in Crossroads is between two sisters, not a group, where Tarna floats the idea to Pevara. - Perrin does not meet the Seanchan in Crossroads of Twilight. Like the Red Ajah confab, it happens in the next book! As does the arrival of Taim! His army is not growing in this book. All he does is track down the Shaido and scout them and at the end, Tallanvor shows up to tell him the Seanchan are in the area. - Faile is basically running a mini-covert resistance movement under the noses of the Shaido. This leads to her having a massive train of refugees which has serious impact on Perrin’s movements in book 12 after they are all freed. - Elayne is not gathering the lesser lords to get their votes. Dyelin gathers the four greater lords who have votes, while Elayne is gathering the lesser lords who are vassals and allies of her House, so she can concentrate her forces to defend the city. - We do not see Mellar plotting murders at multiple points in this book. He has one PoV chapter and is a background character at two other events. - Elayne’s move is not brilliant, she is handing over land that other people live on, to new overlords, forcing them to uproot their lives or live under foreign customs. It is done purely for personal gain, she did NOT leave in the loophole that will give her trade advantages, it was Rand who thinks of that when making his similar deal. Basically, the Sea Folk can have people all over the region deliver their goods by boat to their Andoran enclave, and Elayne can’t do anything about it or take a cut of the profits, because they specified that the land be on the water. Rand is the one who got the advantage, because he got to pick the land, so he intends to give them land that is not on water, so the Sea Folk have to play nice in order to get to and from their enclave. When the deal is made, Dobraine says that it will ruin any port near the land they obtain and Rand’s response is the point about keeping it away from water so they have to use the port. Zaida specifies land on the river, so Rand’s exception does not apply and it basically means the Sea Folk are going to ruin the Andoran port of Aringail. Aringail, by the way, is the major base of Elayne’s support, so she’s going to ruin the town that was loyal to her when no one else was, all so she can get a few channelers to help her claim her throne. One book later, Elayne is kicking herself because she didn’t need to make that deal, since she had other ways of getting channeling help without paying off the Sea Folk with a free chance to blow Andor’s taxes and customs fees. Elayne isn’t thinking well ahead, she’s just trying to gild the turd by thinking of how maybe Andoran goods can circulate more with the Sea Folk’s help. Except the Sea Folk are not cargo haulers, they are traders. They will be buying Andoran goods cheap, and selling them at higher prices, by taking advantage of their faster ships, so Andorans won’t be able to get those higher prices, they will be forced to sell cheap to the Sea Folk. And the merchants and all the people in Aringill whose livelihoods depend on river trade passing through the town, will go broke, because the trade will all be going to the Sea Folk enclave. And Sea Folk ships were no part of Elayne’s deal. - Elayne was never someone who cared about the name and recognition and was ALWAYS someone who cared about the actual results. That’s why she always played peacemaker within the groups with which she traveled, and let other women take charge. That’s why, back in her FIRST POV book, she refuses to let Rand give her credit for her good advice. She loves the recognition, because she’s never had it before, and loves Rand even more for wanting to give her props, but she insists he keeps it on the downlow because it’s better if people think he’s the smart one. During the point in the series when she is getting the most name recognition is early in Lord of Chaos, with the Aes Sedai praising her for her discoveries, and she hates the attention and feels guilty because she’s not the one inventing the weaves. Even though it WAS her discoveries that allow them to keep Moghedian captive and interrogate her. Nynaeve also notes that Elayne is always deflecting praise and criticizing her work, back in “The Fires of Heaven”. When they were leaving the Tower in The Dragon Reborn, Egwene wanted to buy the fanciest clothes they could get so everyone would believe they were Aes Sedai, and it was Elayne who suggested plainer, more utilitarian garb, in the fashion of the Brown Ajah. - Tuon is not courting Mat. It’s all one way on his part. As you noted in the last video, Mat has already sworn the marriage vows, so she has no need to court him. - Tuon has no particular insight into Mat’s mind and does not start gaining any until the next book, when she really starts to see him in his element as a military commander. She is able to see that his denial is a lie, because she has been trained to spot tell-tale signs of a lie. These are universal human behaviors, which is why professional poker players wear sunglasses a lot and why a “poker face” is so important to the game, and concealing the signs of deceit is part of it. - Egwene does not okay the alliance with the Black Tower and it’s not even an alliance. Some Sitters come up with a plan to conscript Asha’man to make their circles bigger, out of fear of the Shadow pulling off something like the big blast of the One Power they felt a few days ago, not knowing that it was not the Shadow at all, and one of their own sisters was doing it. The woman who proposes seeking out Asha’man for this purpose does not even want to send an official embassy, because none of the Aes Sedai really want to accord the Black Tower or the Asha’man respect or anything like equality. Romanda and Lelaine decide to pass the proposal, because they think they need the channeling help, but no one wants to actually deal with them. Egwene has absolutely nothing to do with any of it. She is just present and witnesses it all. Egwene never even formulates an opinion about whether or not she supports the proposal, because Egwene is not interested in anything that does not directly relate to getting her power. We have seen this from the first book, where she didn’t want to even share a camp fire with Elyas when he told her he could not teach her to talk to wolves, did not want to listen to Nynaeve talk shop with Mother Guenna since she was no longer interested in becoming a Wisdom who could use that knowledge, and she keeps interrupting Moiraine’s attempts to learn more about the Aiel so they can get on with her lessons. Egwene, the entire time she is Amyrlin of the rebels never conducts any foreign policy at all. Everything she does is only about consolidating her own power among the Aes Sedai and she doesn’t care about anything else.

[@BappinsTricks]

Daniel, my man, please update this vid with a more accurate summary. Much love keep up the content and ill watch.

[@MrKouga18]

This is where i stop reading... You forgot all about the dice in Matt's head😢

[@austinblair7901]

I have no idea how anybody defends this book.

[@lsmediarecherche4917]

I am skipping 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Read all the summaries on Wiki. :D But this was helpful thanks!!

[@adeyemioyemade1631]

Don’t skip 5,6 or 9 these are good n have some epic moments

[@lsmediarecherche4917]

@@adeyemioyemade1631 Already done and I am happy with it. Maybe if I ever re-read....

[@novafloyd12]

Book 11 spoilers!!! Smh daniel

[@venkatramcharan999]

Yo! I love this channel but come on man. I know this video is old but I watch your summaries and reviews after my read through of each book. This channel introduced me to the books but god damn Daniel you unconsciously spoiled so many things with the last 3 to 4 book summaries/reviews. I didnt know about Tam. Come on man!

[@slifer9990]

Ffs you literally spoil in every one of these video's like wtf dude?

[@lord6617]

...its a summary?

[@lord6617]

@@da3m0nic_79 Yes, then do stop watching them. And try to be less angry, the book reading experience will go better as well.

[@xHugoxN7]

Witch Politics... The Book. Why Egwene.... so dumb plan was good.... but still?

[@mtshelll2977]

Great recap video, but this is the first that has big book 11 spoilers, just whyyyy

[@sanin3213]

Apart from Perrin chopping out the guy's arm and The Dark One making an appearance, this book is booooooooooooooring

[@KingBowserVlog]

Literally the only good things in the book

[@sanin3213]

@@KingBowserVlog yup!

[@NahlaAnwer]

I skipped 8 & 9 and watched your summary instead. Should've skipped 10 not 9. This book was all fluff to me.

[@SwipeSide19]

This book made me want to quit the series

[@oscarfontana4]

First....you looked high as fu*k in this video. Second, you got the remembering Hawkwing's face part totally wrong. Tuon had prophecy she was working from, not insight into Mat's character.

[@ChristmasLore]

Very bad review. Do not watch before reading the next books. Daniel mixes up quite a lot.

[@carlwoolley17]

Dude spoilers...not cool

[@chuckles486gaming8]

Worst book in the series in my opinion it was like nothing really happened